Romney makes money on the birth control he opposes

In recent days, Mitt Romney has been on the presidential trail bashing the Obama administration’s requirement that all employers and insurers provide contraception and other reproductive health care services. On Monday, Romney took it a step further and accused President Obama of tramping on religious freedom.

There are several issues with Romney's extreme new stance on birth control, as well as his cries of religious persecution by the Obama administration.

Institutions with a primarily religious mission are exempted from the law. No doctors will be required to provide birth control. No one who believes that birth control is a sin be required to use it. The law is designed to ensure that access to preventative care is not denied to women who want or need it.

Although anti-abortion groups might claim that the pill is "abortive," medical science does not back up that claim. Plan B is a heavy dose of the type of hormones in regular-old-birth-control. It is designed to either prevent ovulation or to prevent a fertilized egg from implanting in a woman's uterus (depending on where the woman is in her menstrual cycle). Medical organizations like the National Institutes of Health and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists have clearly affirmed that pregnancy does not begin until a fertilized egg is implanted. Plan B thus cannot be an "abortive pill" as Romney and others claim.

So while Romney travels the country advocating the restriction of women's access to responsible and common birth control, he is stuffing his pockets with the profits from their production. This is a new low, even for Romney, who continues to demonstrate that he will say and do anything to pander to the religious far-right to secure the GOP nomation.